"This is a virus we've known about for maybe fifty, sixty years, so it's not a novel virus. We've got about 6,600 cases here in the United States. Thankfully nobody has died of this disease, and obviously we're going we're gonna hope that serious illness remains low, we're going to do everything we can to make that happen," said Jha.

"Right now, about 98% of the cases are among gay and bisexual men, spreading through prolonged skin-to-skin contact, so it is not something that, I think, the average person needs to be concerned about contracting," he added.